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Turks Head Chop House / Paramount Hotel — Essex Gate

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Turks Head Chop House / Paramount Hotel — Essex Gate
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Attached two-bay four-storey over basement former house, built c.1840, having recent shopfront to front (north-west) elevation. Now in use as public house with hotel to upper floors. M-profile pitched roof hidden behind rebuilt red brick parapet having cut granite coping, red brick chimneystack with terracotta pots. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond, to upper floors. Square-headed window openings having cut granite sills, raised render reveals and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window and door openings with recent fittings to shopfront, panelled pilasters and fascia. Situated on south side and west end of Essex Gate.

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